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Issues as well as candidates and appointments can be unfairly influenced by whoever can raise the most money. In a recent referendum battle in Montana over whether the state should adopt a 2% sales...
Negotiations will now proceed in the IMF's Committee of Twenty, a group of officials of the developing nations and the rich, non-Communist countries. The aim is to produce principles for a monetary system that the IMF could formally adopt at its annual meeting in Nairobi a year from now. Secretary Shultz has outlined a balanced and flexible system that holds real promise for bringing the world out of its monetary muddle...
...most recent diocese to adopt good-conscience procedures, Baton Rouge, La., has also become the scene of the innovation's undoing. In June, Bishop Robert Tracy announced that he was setting up a good-conscience committee to regularize the process of bringing certain remarried Catholics back to the sacraments. "The church has a pastoral responsibility of healing and forgiveness," the bishop said. "I trust this announcement will be met by all the people of our diocese with...
Israel may also adopt some of the terrorists' own methods, taking the initiative against guerrilla cells in Europe and elsewhere. It is a form of warfare that is hardly new to Israelis. In the early 1950s, a special commando unit known as "101" carried out bloody raids into Egypt and Jordan. Israeli agents have also been sent abroad to kill Arab intelligence men, kidnap former Nazis such as Adolf Eichmann, and in 1962-63 to assassinate German rocket engineers working for Egypt...
...developers. New Mexicans are now pushing for legislation that would give them the legal wrench necessary to tighten the faucet on their scarce water supply, thereby limiting expansion. Think-tank experts envision even more extreme solutions. Rand Corp. Demographer Peter Morrison believes that the Federal Government may have to adopt population-distribution policies; if not, localities may resort to residency permits and migrant entry fees to prevent being "loved to death...